Pat Smear Quotes

The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.

I love Coldplay. The lights, and the sound quality They really play their instruments. Sometimes, during the show, they'll make a mistake and stop. I think they do it intentionally just to show you they're really playing it live.

My dream has been to have my rock band behind me, play live, and entertain.

Immediate, simultaneous connection between the audience and a performer is crucial to me. It's why I do what I do. Other things, like recording, are satisfying, but they're not the same. I love the connection I get with the audience when I'm sitting behind that piano.

I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were really great. I saw them live in the '90s; they were really, really good. The music is great, and the musicians are amazing.

With Dream Theater live, I may have been a bit of a focal point because I absolutely live for the energy on stage, and having interaction with the audience is absolutely crucial to me - regardless of how some others have described it!

Yeah, playing live for me is the essence of what we do.

I've always enjoyed playing live onstage.

Unless the clients want, I don't like to have dancers for my shows. I prefer a rock show look and like performing with a live band.

When you're in a club or a theater or even an arena, yeah, you want visuals, you want a good light show. But Slayer has always been about the sound. We have to sound good. It has to be tight.

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.

I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.

One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

And the live show is still our main thing.

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

There are a lot of singers who cannot sing to save their lives. We have to accept it, but thank God there is such a thing as live shows. It's only when people are faced with live shows that the world gets to know how good or how bad they are.

I think the idea of having the show divided into two parts was that Tom Tom Club opened for Talking Heads in Europe, and it was the best we'd ever had as an opening act.

Traveling the world was a constant thing, rich with experiences. But all of it was relative to being able to play live onstage and really stretch out.

When you see a band, you want to see characters.

In the studio is one thing, but playing live is the important part, I think.

I find that if I interact more, the crowd gets way more into the music. We also have a full live show happening, and I have lighting crew that travels around with me. We've got this Infinity Prism thing, which is lots of fun. It's an optical illusion device that we carry around.

I like to see other bands, and I like to hear their songs, but I really like it when they engage the audience.